Railway-car.



J. W. BASKERVILLE.

RAILWAY CAR.

APPLlCATION FILED AUG-31.1916.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

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RAILWAY CAR.

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.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 11, 1916,

Application filed August 31,1915. Serial in. 48,248. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN WV. BASKER-' YILLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bayonne, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway cars of that kind comprising a body open at the top and adapted to contain coal, gravel or other material, and having a bottom provided with'sloping surfaces and one or more doors through which the material may discharge by gravity down said surfaces when the door or doors are open.

The object of the invention is to provide a car having swinging side doors whereby the contents of the car may be dumped from either or both sides in a'ready, convenient and expeditious manner.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of freight cars with sloping bottom surfaces, combined with a novel construction of pivotally mounted side doors, and means for locking the side doors in closed position.

The invention consists of the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts herein fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a self-dumping freight car embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates. the frame of the car body, including the sills 2, uprights 3, upper longitudinal side bars 4, cross bars 5, and fixed end walls 6, all of which parts are preferably formed of angle metal bolted or riveted together and suitably stayed and reinforced at proper points.

In accordance with my invention, the bottom of the car body, which is of the usual oblong rectangular form, is formed by sloping walls 7 and 8 terminating at their outer edges in angularly bent portions forming inwardly extending horizontal flanges 9, which walls slope from the longitudinal center of the car body and form downwardly and outwardly inclined planes on opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the car. The walls 7 and 8 rest upon inclined transverse bars 10 and are connected with and stayed from the sills 2 and lower cross bars 5 by suitable upright angle braces 11 and connecting plates 12. upper longitudinal side bars 4: are in the form of L-beams, having their short webs or flanges 13 horizontally arranged at their upper edges and their longer webs or flanges 14 depending vertically. The sides of the car are suspended from these bars or beams and are in the form of swinging doors 15. Each of these doors 1s made up of sheet metal plates united at their lower ends by an L-beam 16 to which they are riveted, bolted or otherwise secured, and to which are also similarly fastened at intervals vertically disposed angle bars 17 All of these angle bars, except those at the eX- treme end edges of the doors, have apertured upper ends 18 serving as hinge straps which pivotally engage loops 19 secured to the horizontal and vertical webs of the bars 4. The doors are provided at their upper edges with bracing lips' 20, and the lower webs of the beams 16, are inclined to conform to the slope of the surfaces 9 and 10, so that when the doors are fully closed the lips 20 will rest against the bars 4: and the beams 16 will bear against the sloping surfaces 7 and 8, thus effecting a tight closure of the doors, the lips 20 also serving to reinforce the doors against the pressure of the material at the hinge point. The doors are provided at their ends with projecting keeper pins 21 adapted to be engaged by hooked latches 22 pivoted to the end walls 6, which latches are movable in guides 23 and have handle ends 24 acting also as dogs to engaged toothed rack segments 25, whereby the latches are held against accidental disengagement under the vibrations of the car while in transit.

The horizontal flanges 9 at the lower edges of the walls 7 and 8 rest upon and are bolted or riveted to the upper horizontal webs of the sills 2, the angular construction of the walls 7 and 8 at these points making a connection which is of maximum strength and durability. As shown the walls 7 and 8 and their flanges 9 are provided with openings 26 which are adapted to receive the lower ends of intermediate locking bolts 27, which also serve as bracing members. These intermediate locking bolts 27 are fitted to slide in guides 28 on the side walls of beams 16 and their lower ends are movable in guide openings 29 in said beams, which The 7 guide openings register with the guide openings 26 when the doors are fully closed. As a result of this construction the bolts 27 when in use interlock with the beam 16, the body portions and flanges of the walls 7 and 8 and the upper horizontal webs of the beams 2, thus effectually reinforcing the side walls against the pressure of the load.

It will be understood that the load contained in the carrests upon the inclined bottom walls 7 and 8, and that by simply releasing either door or both doors the mate rial at either side of the car or on both sides of the longitudinal center of the car may be discharged by gravity, the weight of the load forcing the doors open and the load then discharging down the inclined surfaces 7 and 8, as will be readily understood. When the load is discharged the doors swing back to closed position by gravity and may be relocked by means of the latches 22 in a ready and convenient manner. By the described construction of side dumping car of the selfdumping type it will be obvious that the load may be dumped in a ready, quick and con venient manner.

I claim 1. A self-dumping car comprising abody frame including upper longitudinal angle metal bars, a bottom having surfaces sloping downwardly and outwardly from the center toward the sides of the car, outwardly swinging doors, each comprising a sheet metal body having vertically disposed reinforcing bars, the upper edges of the sheet metal body of each door being offset inwardly to form stops to engage the said upper longitudinal angle metal bars, loops connected with the webs of the longitudinal angle metal bars and with which the ends of the vertical reinforcing bars are pivotally connected, and means for locking the doors in closed position.

2. A self-dumping car including channeled side beams, upright end walls, pivotally mounted side doors having perforated flanges at their lower ends, sloping bottom Walls provided at their outer edges with angularly bent portions providing inwardly extending flanges resting upon the upper flange of the channeled beams, said walls. flanges and channel flanges being provided with perforations to coincide with the firstnamed perforated flanges when the doors are closed, end latches upon the end walls to engage the end portions of the doors, and intermediate bolts upon the doors movable through the perforated flanges thereof and into engagement with the perforations in the sloping walls and side beams.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. BASKERVILLE. Witnesses:

ROBERT W. WVILsoN, SoL. F. GATTUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). 0. 

